Cattleya nobilior

Noble Cattleya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Epidendreae
Subtribe:	Laeliinae
Alliance:	Cattleya
Genus:	Cattleya
Subgenus:	C. subg. Rhizantha
Species:	C. nobilior
Binomial name
	Cattleya nobilior; Rchb.f. (1883)
Synonyms
	Cattleya walkeriana var. nobilior (Rchb.f.) H.J. Veitch (1887); Cattleya nobilior var. hugueneyi L. Linden & Rodigas (1885); Cattleya nobilior var. amaliae Pabst (1978); Cattleya nobilor var. amaliae Pabst (1978); Cattleya nobilior var. alba L.C. Menezes (2001);

Cattleya nobilior (literally "the More Noble Cattleya", referring to the flowers which are larger than those of C. walkeriana, the other rhizanthoid Cattleya, of which it was originally considered a variety) is a species of orchid. The rhizanthoid Cattleyas differ from the other species of Cattleya by having inflorescences which arise directly from the rhizome, instead of from the apex of the pseudobulb. The diploid chromosome number of C. nobilior has been determined as 2n = 42, which contrasts with the value of 2n = 40 for C. walkeriana.^[1]

Footnotes and External Links

^ page 251 of L. P. Felix and M. Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2010)234—278. The Linnean Society of London. Downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/abstract

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[1] 251 of L. P. Felix and M. Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2010)234—278. The Linnean Society of London. Downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/abstract

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